On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Robert W. Fowler wrote:
> > the only sure way i know of is to do the walmart demo machine "special"
> > bios, and have your machine's bios have a boot locker burned in.
>
> That would not be "sure" at all. Linux doesn't use the BIOS, so the BIOS
> could not be responsible for encrypting the disk, and if the disk isn't
> encrypted, all you have to do is pull it out of the laptop case and plug it
> into a different machine.
I agree with what you say but the above does not address what Rob said at
all... his point was that if you have a BIOS password "burned" into the
eprom, you'll have to know the password in order to boot the laptop. That
isn't really a solution though, because you can as easily replace the
"special" BIOS as you did the original BIOS...
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Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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